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How To Setup LAMP on uBuntu 11.04 – Also, WordPress

In this article, we will work on setting up a LAMP environment for uBuntu 11.04. As an added bonus, I will setup WordPress 3.2 in the environment for you nerds. As you may notice in previous posts, I have a nice little lappy which allows me to dev on the run.

Installing LAMP onto uBuntu 11.04

First thing is first, we need to install tasksel then run it via terminal.

[code lang=”bash”]
sudo apt-get install tasksel
sudo tasksel[/code]

Select LAMP Server and proceed to install it!

While you are installing LAMP, you will be prompted to set a password for MySQL root.

First of all, /var/www/ directory is set for root user only. We want to allow our IDE’s, such as Netbeans or Vi/Vim/Nano have permissions to write to this directory. So let’s sudo su and chown /var/www/